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the carolina watchman wl xiii third series salisbury n c december 1 1881 no 7 the carolina watchman ! established in tiie teak 1832 riut'k 11.50 in advance co.ntract advertising rates ll'.l.l.l alii _". isso ,, l.cj i month t in - sm c in 7 i8m*a - j fl .'..) 3.60 8 ml j a.oo r''ofâ€žr b.oo 1.50 6.86 r.i 18.00 4 in c.t.ti t.r.tt 11 im 15.00 6.00 t.so y.t..i 13.50 ls.00 l.-olumntorj t.so j 11.85 16.50 tsm * do i 11.48 i5.is 80.50 85.60 4o.no Â» j 1u i 18.75 86.85 88.76 â– Â»â– >.. 5 75.00 , r r crawford & co are selling portable farm and factory steam eeginefcs mu 5 canities i ind caps tie tat rifle powder made if apns wapns wagons oj our own and foreign make and buggies from ti klnesi ini he t ih apesl . enter belttnj champion mower horse rakes c salisbury jan <*. 18_u ly n o ti c e ! john f eacle fashion able m e00t hi jks shoe jba i a li 1 â€¢: li , invite your allention lo i.i shop opposite mayor'n < hliee kepaii ii:j neatly and prompt w done all grades of goods made lo order life insurance made cheap table showing actual cb_rf lo member o/"$4,000 insurance for one year marcjk 1 1879 lo march 1 1880 pint class aged ir to 30 years 17 0(1 second " 30 " 4i ' " ... ji 25 tl.ir.l " 40 " 45 " ... 25 50 fourth " 45 " 5(1 " ... m jo fifth 'â€¢ 50 " rt " ... 51 oil smii " 55 " gg " ... is ihi j d iÂ«ck'cel7l ag't harness h_c i am ) repared lo furnish t7ag0n and euggy harness made t the best northern tanned leather a'ork and leather gu rauleed t ll and me inc opposite alwell's yalli street salisbury n c mm john h james b.r_.uck w u bailey vance & bailey attorneys and counsellors charlotte n Â»'. pnetict in supreme niri t_f the united state supreme t nil ol orih carolina kvdc-ra i t ourii and t ountiesol mecklenburg is union gaston kowun and david â€¢Â°" sfff\.a dice iw u doors east ol 1 ndepen atnce square 33:tf !â€¢Â« m â– . ibkle rilko 17 kl.fttz mccorkle & kluttz utoitneys and counselors salisbury n c fta_t mli.-e on council street opposite the cÂ«_tt hi r 7:t'ni e&ttcratue im ii clement i craige & clement i sutowcp at 2nur i flis salisbuiy.s.c isgl | blactmer ana henderson ! attorneys counselors and solicitors i salisbury n.c < jfto_ay22 1 879 tt ] t ' i idavicij^^geth&sons phiiaj , 1 i recommended to mercy by imogexe ii syke8 i say paul what do you think ? you know deep dell why charlie of course i do in terrupted a bright voice as the im patitnt ne^vs carrier in the form of a i restless lad of fourteen clattered noisily into the quiet sunny kitchen â€¢ and checked the important work of cake-making with his abrupt in j quiry well you can't go there any more the owner's come back and stuck up ' bills all over everything that tres passing won't be allowed it'sashame i think and charlie sat astride of a kitch en chair and looked dolefully at his sister as she put down the cake-pan and regarded him iu turn the owner of deep dell come back ?' she repeated musingly yes and locked up all the gates and stuck up notices that he will pun ish trespassing on the property and pa.i the strawberries are just ripe added charlie suggestively looking at the thoughtful face of the girl as she still considered the startling news of the squire's return after so many years of absence the word strawberries aroused her it is a shame she flashed out then stain ping a strongly clad foot on the brick hearth as she popped her cake pan into the oven and i shall not uiind his notices notices in deed !' she scoffed with a high head i've picked strawberries from deep dell farm ever since i was a little child and he was running wild over the country ; and i mean to pick them again to-day but he'll punish trespassers urg ed charlie with secret delight think ing of the cake and strawberries for supper pauline furled her apron like a flag ami nodded her head let him !' what would you du wickedly urged the spirit of mischief rocking his chair let him !' laconically retorted paul as she made things tidy about the kitchen and reached up for a basket beside the dresser but look here paul you're the minister's sister you know aud ought to set an example of â€” of â€” ' the buy floundered iu a moral slough as the steady eyes of his sister settled on his face if you say honesty charlie kirk the said calmly tying her sunbonuet strings under her round chin you shall uct have one berry no nor cake either minister's sister or not i consider 1 have the right to those berries when i gathered them years and years befoie he ever knew any thing about them and she walked resolutely lo the door well if he runs across your bow advised charlie from the gate watch ing her resolute face with satisfaction just put up your boarding-nets and give him a broadside charlie had naval aspirations for the next year and was gleaning knowledge from a course of marry alt's novels as a useful prelimi nary paul trudged away in silence pon dering upon twostibjcets â€” the squire's return from his roving life and the indignity he had put upon the vil lage by liis notices and barred gates i will look out for my right she concluded il logically as she climbed the fence into the strawberry patch and the people can take care of theirs no thought of the squire's rights mtcred her mutinous little head as she filled her basket with his luicious fruit david always brings home com pany on friday evening she solilo quized as she picked on industrious ly and whoever it is will enjoy these berries i know she filled her basket evenly to the brim and arose with flushed cheeks jisheveled hair sun-bonnet hanging luwn by the strings tied under her hin to find herself face to face with a t ranger â€” a man who stood regard ug her quietly paul stood motionless he must \ be a trarap in that old brown coat ilouch hat and dusty top boots if you please he said very polite ' ly for a trarap is this trespassing j paul thought of the notices and the punishment attending the aet and was sorry for the man it is she said calmly ; and you had better leave at once for there is no knowing what the owner might do if he caught you and she lifted her basket majesti cally is he so very hard then ?' asked the tramp with humble deference to her manner i fancy he is a â€” a tyrant replied paul superbly and means to itisti ' tute reform in all its severest and most disagreeable phases at deep dell so my good man you'd better take yourself off with wliich advice the minister's sister went her way over the fence down into the lane aud home to | charlie waiting at the gate and ; bracing a mainyard according to his idea of the thing well v he cried out eagerly did the enemy show himself paul lifted the lid of her basket i saw no one but a tramp â€” a very gentlemanly tramp i must say and i advised the poor fellow to keep out of harm charlie whistled a bar of a life on the ocean wave here comes david with a gentle man he said with sudden gravity i wonder who his friday night com panion is this time say paul if it should be the squire but the girl had fled within to at tend to her tea-table atul see if the little maid-of-all-work had watched the cake carefully everything was right and a dain tier or better-served table was never presented to hungry mortals than that to which the minister invited his guest within an incredibly short time after paul had disappeared from the gate charlie was right it was the squire the young girl bowed calmly to the grave courteous man her brother presented her eyes resting the while upon the dish of ripe red berries with an indignant thought of his bar red and notices a puzzled look came into her face as tl.e stranger talked on and she glanced furtively at him only to meet his grave eyes full upon her and to feel thc floor rock beneath her feet so they protest against my claim ing my own he was saying in ans i wer io the minister's report on the discontent ofthe village they will become obedient enough when they find out i am not a tyrant paul could bear no more she dared not look up as the minister helped his guest to the strawberries but with a hurried excuse for cream which was in the little silver jug beside the berries all he while she left the room with eager steps she was gone so long that charlie came to hunt her up and found her disconsolate and miserable on the back step oh charlie !' she cried he was the â€” tramp !' the gentlemanly tramp !' and the bay sat down beside her aghast what shall i do she was so wretched and pale that charlie arose to the situation at once i wouldn't mind paulie !' he said coa singly oh but i must mind ! he is going to raise david's salary which means so much to you charlie and to re pair the church and after all he is right i didn't see it until i heard him tell david his plans and ideas and â€” aud what does he think of me here a miserable sob choked the pretty voice and charlie grew des perate just come in and have it out with him he urged make a clean breast of it and he'll have to be polite then but paul lacked courage to confess , her fault and neither theu nor long ; mouths after when the squire was a â€¢ frequent visitor at the cottage and a j kind friend to tlie whole village could ; she gain strength to speak and ask i for some little of the kindness he 1 gave others and denied her the strawberries were ripe again at deep dell and paul was walking sadly down the lane past the corner j fence she used to climb so deftly thinking not of the berries not of charlie away at college nor of the new cottages down in the villag but of her own unpardoned fault which lay like a heavy cloud upon l.er path and looking up she saw the squjre quietly regarding her she paused humbly have you nothing to say to me paul ?' he naked in a strange tone after one long year huve you no word for me ?' with a break iu her voice that seemed a part ofthe tears that would come paul forgot her defiance and thought only of the heavy heart she had carried so long and made her confession then and there the accused pleads guilty and is recommended to mercy said the squire with a bright laugh ; but paul i did not mean that she look ed up eagerly as he took both hands and if i give you a free pardon for trespassing on my property antl steal ing my furitj what shall i ask in re turn for the peace of mind you have robbed nie of iu this last year paul thought of charlie's advice lo have it out with bim and so said softly but bravely : the heartache you have given nie by your coldness she looked at him fearlessly now smiling and blushing as lie crushed her hands will you bear your sentence lie cried ves she softly laughed then you are henceforth and for ever to be mist ress not only of deep dell but owner and manager of the heart antl devotion of the gentlemanly tramp !' said paul saucy with happiness why sherman wept on dit that gen sherman wept the other day after hearing marching through georgia played at a banquet his neigh bor jen grant asked him : wherefore dost thou weep the georgian hero answered : i never was so all tired sorry that 1 marched through georgia as i have beeu in the last five years georgia be darned i hate the name of that old nest of rebels the people are good enough but i am listening to that tune for the 3,465857th time how would you like ulysses be continued to heur that inter nal melody over three million times they have socked it to me from maine to texas and from florida to toronto and here he wept afresh but gen grant quietly patted the little hero on the shoulder and said : sherry it is only one of the penalties of greatness 1 sutler worse thau you do â€” i've had 7,008,000 cigars given mc because peo ple think i like to smoke 824 bull pups and more horses than i can count sherry continued the general whenever i see a horse a cigar or a bull pup i feel just as badly as you do but i never give way to m feelings i sell em yes answered gen sherman between his sobs you can sell cigars bull pups and horses but i can't bell that d d tune for live cents julius is you better dis morning no i was better yesterday but i'se got obcr dat am tlcre no hopes ob your discobcry i discobery ob what <" your discobery from dc convalescence what am fetching you on your back dat depends sah ou dc prognostica tion which implies de disease should dcy continue fatally dc doctor thinks i'se a gone coon ; should dey not continue fatelly he hopes dis culled individual won't die lis time but as i said afore dat all depends on dc prognostics and till dose come to a head dcre am no telling wedder dis pusson will come to discontinuation or odderwisc a salt lake man has been turning a pen ny by counterfeiting confederate bonds he got plates made in chicago and is said to have sold great quantities of bonds print ed from them at if 5 per thousand the stockholders ofthe alabama central railroad have ratified the action of the di rectors in selling the property some time since to the east tennessee virginia & georgia line iu westmoreland county pa dogs are being killed because it is believed hat the animals have the small pox and are spread ing the disease it is worth remembering that nobody en joys the nicest surroundings if in bad health i there are mserable people about to-day i with one foot in the grave when a bottle wl : parker's ginger tonic would do them more i good than all the doctors and medicines thev hive ever tried see dv ocl8 novl3 the nineteenth century a thanksgiving discourse preached ia the first presbyteriau church of sal ' isbiuy november 24 18s1 by rev jkt1iko lilmflk the present year has been marked by many strange and important events it was ushered in by a winter of unusual severity followed by a summer of extra ordinary drought and heat aud the con sequent decrease in the production of the fruits of the earth the heavens above us were distinguished by the rare phe nomenon of the conjunction of the four greater planets while comets blazed iu the sky two of the rulers of the mighti est civilized nations the czar of russia and the president of the united states have fallen by the hands of assassins and there have beeu remarkable political changes and revolutions iu our own coun try that might furuish profitable themes for discourse aud meditation to-*day but as a general rule present aud passiug events are too near to us and iu a state too unfinished to be susceptible ofa cor rect interpretation i prefer therefore to take a new departure to day and follow another aud 1 trust a more profitable line of thought the text is say not thou what is the cause that tilt formes days were better than these foli thoc dost not inquire wisely concerning this eccles vli 10 it is said that king charles of eng land once proposed this question to his newly organized royal society : why is it that a vessel of water will weigh no more with a iish iu it than it did before the fish was put int after the learned pundits had puzzled their brains over the problem tor au evening one of them in nocently inquired whether such was in deed the fact ah !" said the clever king that ought to have beeu the very first inquiry you made it is uot true.'1 somewhat iu the same way it may be said that it is not wise to inquire why the former days were better thau these it is not true aud therefore it is unprofitable to trouble ourselves to find out a reason that the former days were better than these is simply an imagination of the aged whose dulled aud decayed faculties ren der them incapable of appreciating the present or it is the dream of the young whose knowledge of both the past and the present is vague aud superficial the spirit of discontent iu the hearts of men makes all ages seem better than the pres ent and all circumstances more desirable thau those by which they arc surrounded iu truth says lord macaulay men are under a deception similar to that which misleads the traveller in the arabi an desert beneath tho caravan all is dry und bare but far iu advance and far iu the rear is the semblance of refreshing waters the pilgrims hasten forward and find nothing but sand where an hour before they had seen a lake they turn their eyes and see a lake where an heur before they were toiling through the sand a similar illusion seems to haunt nations through every stage of the long progress from poverty and barbarism to lhe highest degrees of opulence and civil ization but it we resolutely chase the mirage backward we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous an tiquity this generation of southerners is wont to look back upon the good old days before the late war between the states as the golden age of our sunny south laud but iu those days adventur ous spirits were wont to look back with regret upou the old pioneer days of iude abundance when the bear and the deer haunted the primeval forests turkeys and pheasants tilled the plains aud thick ets and all the streams abounded iu fish that seemed the perfection of a joyful age theu ; while perhaps the early pio neers looked back sometimes with regret to happy days spent eu the shores of the emerald isle or amid the heather or iu the narrow glens of scotland but it is evi dent to a careful observer of the times and the seasons that if we had all the past ages of the world to select from we could not choose a period having so many appliances of happiness or facilities for improvement as the one which a wise and beneficent providence has allotted to us perhaps if we could choose our era one hundred or tive hundred years hence we might be better suited perhaps not it may be that the pendulum of civiliza tion for the present has already swung to its highest point and is now just ready to descend in its downward curve of oscil lation not to rise so high again for a thousand years or more the great ruler of the universe with whom oue day is asa thousand years and a thousand years as one day has put our race to the test at many times and iu different circum stances and the uniform result hitherto has been tempo ray progress and then de cay the race has net proved itself ca pable of sustained advancement and per manent excellence with the universal diffusion of knowledge with the purify ing power of the gospel with the in dwelling of the divine spirit and with god's providential care and direction there is no conceivable limit to the at tainments men may make but if this generation should prove recreant to the trust committed t them should through pride and self-sufficiency forget god and his law then who knows but all this rx j cellence already attained may vanish like j the miota ofthe moruing aud the uiouu j ments of human genius and skill crumble to the earth or remain if at all like the the relics of the mound builders who came lived aud departed without leav ing a chronicle behiud to tell the story of their live i trust that it will be profitable to us on this thanksgiving day in order to sharpen our appreciation ot that goodly heritage which a beneficent providence has bestowed upon us to look back a short period into history and notice some of the iucouvenieuces and evils which our forefathers endured now happily re moved from our lot we ueed not go back to the age of the crusades to the period of the wars of the runes ; uor to the fierce aud fiery age of the plautage uets or tudors we need uot explore the period when even kings and nobles could neither read nor write aud when learn ' iug was so rare and valuable that even a \ murderer was allowed to escape the gal \ lows by benefit of clergy that is by proving that he was a clerk by read ing a page of a book we need not go back to the age when the english palaces , aud castles had for floors ouly the beaten ground littered with rushes and when a special officer was needed to examine ! the king's straw every evening so that i he might not be endangered by lying i dowu on a concealed dagger we need ! not go back to the period when uo such thing as conversion to god or a change of heart was required or even thought of as a qualification for church membership or a holy life expected of au ordinary man but we have ouly to compare tlie period of one hundred years ago with the present age to discover the wondrous improvements that have been made iu the art of living and of government in ed ucation iu travelling in commerce in civil liberty iu social and dome-tic life ' and above all iu public morality and re ' ligiou 1 there has been a mitigation iu the ! evils of war by their iufreqtiency their shorter duration and the greater human ! ity exercised towards soldiers and to j wards enemies and captives it may be hard lor us just fresh from the terrible1 ordeal ofa four years fratricidal war toap ! predate the improvement in this respect ! hut it is a fact that since the surrender 'â– of the hritish at yorktown in 1781 the ! united states have bad but about nine ! years of war aud in five of those years there was little interference with tlie or j diuary pursuits of the people but when ! we turn to european history we read of the hundred vears war of the thirty | vears war the terrible wars of the ' spanish succession even the ninetieth century was ushered in with a twenty five years war that in turn and some times simultaneously agitated every eu ropeau nation from the baltic aud the uralto the straits of gibraltar even america was drawn ieto the vortex and had three years of frontier wai tare this was the war that began with the french revolution in 1739 and continued until the congress of vienna in 1815 readjus ted the balance of power which they fondly dreamed would be perpetual ami which actually did preserve a measure of peace for nearly forty years this war rested like a night maru upon the bosom of europe wasting its wealth slaughter ing its children and restraining its pro gress many who were unborn ai its be ginning were lighting in the ranks at its close from lack of transportation and from the clumsy nature of the arms of that day wars could not be short sharp and decisive as in modern times it was estimated that iu wellington's pe ninsular campaign only oue bullet in six hundred ever harmed a frenchman and it required an expenditure of his weight j in lead to kill an enemy a half century later the germans disabled one french man by an expenditure of two hundred and j seventy nine balls ami russian statistics assert that iu their late war they struck ; down oue turk for every sixty-six m.ots ; fired killed cannon repeating rifles mitrailleuses needle gnus and cannon that will hurl a mass of two thousand , pounds of iron live miles with unerring precision seem to predict terrible slaugh i ter iu the coming age is tit the fact is tlie ! reverse it is the old fashion hand to 'â– hand fight that we read of in the books of the kings and the chronicles of israel 'â– that slaughters whole armies iu a day i tha perfection of the implements of slaughter renders war le-s frequent and leas prolonged it is not the slaughter of the battle field that is the great e -. il of war but the privation tlie sickucms tlie fatigueing marcb the dreary hospital and the waste of resources iu his six mouths1 campaign against russia in 1812 napoleon lost over half a million of men but it was not iu the battle of borodino that they were slaughtered though oue hun dred thousand men fell on thai bloody field it was hunger and thirst ami ex posure and fatigue that slew the other four hundred thousand 2 the nineteenth century is also ' characterized by a lengthened average of the duration of human life tin's is part ly owiug the decrease of destructive wars bat largely to other causes fifty vears ago we weie taught that thirty three years was lhe life ofa generation of men ' iu the middle of the 18th century in lou don lite average of human life was uveu 1 ty tour years but it 1326 wime per son in every fifty v-ven died in that citr j philadelphia the average of ha.nan lite is lorry years am n chicago fortv th.ee years the increase iu the life ofa generation is ten or fifteen years one cause of this increase is the discover of preventives or remedies tor virulent dis eases a hundred years ago oue-tei.th of all the deaths i england were caused by sm.ill-p now through the discovery of dr jen ner this terrible scourge ha been deprived of its fatal power in for mer times tin drained swamps and fields generated intermittent levers whieh de btroyed many lives and pressed heavily upon the vitality of thermal population but wise farmers hive learned to drain their marshes and thus destroy an enemy more dreadful thau the fabled hydra tbat lurked in the lake of urua the filth in tlie streets and dwellings of the cities used to be festcriug sources of diseases and death but draining sewers have closed these sources of disease ihe era of medical science was vet in the future at the beginning of this cen j tury aud did little to remedy the ravages of disease depletion and the exhaus j lion ofthe system was generally the first : step in the treatment and was often soon j followed by death but later years have witnessed nuparalled progress in ihis noble science not only have effective j remedies h,i disease been discovered and successful methods ol administering them been devised but sanitary rules and r.-g [ illations have heeu patiently studied out j and published to the world thus udttc j ing or destroy ing the very causes of dis ease almost every year and sometimes j often in the year we lind iu the hands of skillful physicians new and improved instruments for discovering the nature of diseases for calculating their virulence | and power or for administering in the beat way the most approved remedies to no class is tin bcuefit more conspicu ous than r.moug the children lhe evil i sanitary surroundings which in former days waned agaiust the immature : strength of childhood ha.'e been improv ed thus giving them a fairer chance at , life by all thesu improvements tho chances of living a long comfortable und useful life have beeu greatly augmented there has also been au increased erou â– omy of the lives of useful nun by the de | crease of violence ami especially by the ! decay ofthe barbarous practice of duelling the reader ot history will recollect that , many leading m n of the asl generation j indulged in tlii absurd practice some of , them falling victims in the prime of their i manhood fox i'iu , ( a icrc_u__i o'jcon l Â° , nell canning wellington hamilton burr . clay randolph jackson snd hosts of olh , ers well known tn fame once tried each lo kill his man under thc enlightened in fluence of prince albert in england and by a healthier moral sentiment everywhere this relic of barbarism is fast disappearing sÂ»on we mav hope it will not be heard nf even in such phucs a lead ville or tucson tombstone or thc ranches uearesl the rio grande '!. still further we mav notice thnt new ideas concerning the nature and design of civil government have dawned upon the civilized world within thc last hundred years during sixty years of ihe 18th century says mckenzie lewis xv one of the meanest and basest of human crea tures ruled over france it was the im liefof this unworthy person that prases was his and that and her twenty tive i millions of people were of no value other wise than i thev ministered lo his enjoy ment no one about him ever in all his long lit suggested another view to him the great nobles went daily to see him dressed and undressed regaling him the while with the obscene j.."iji which he loved so well to hem the nobles were us vile and as despotic as lie the peasants were bound to grind iheir com at tha seigneur's mill t press their grapes in his wine pre and to bake their lircad in his ovin paving of course snch tull as he chose to exact betweeu king snd nobles ! the people were taxed crushi laud beaten ! until life was a harden nor v a the con ditiou of the french people worse thun that ofthe rest of continental europe in fact ifwc n.:i credit det.-cqucville il was better every sovereign whether king prince elector duke doge r count with slight exceptions regarded his vassals as hi property and treated them with harsh ness and severity up to the period of the french devolution then th bugle blast of liberty wri sounded in all ears and the people of europe n ver forgot it after despotism had passed over thai moody chasm it never displayed the same vigor again the price was a terrible one hot the enfranchisement of the european i>eo j w as worth it all in 1-1 1 the tax h of england amounted ' to an average of 30 for every mail wo man and child in the kingdom at the same time wheat was worth 5 50 a bush el and other commodities in proportion while unskilled labor earned only .â€¢*.{. 00 a week nr 50 cents a day ami mechanics earned hut 85.00 a wee or j cents .. day by comparing this with the laxea ot utii.day and country averaging from two to tive dollars for n poor man and his family with 7 cents n day as ths wages of unskilled labor and two dollars a day for a mechanic atul wheat ai 1...u per bushel yon vvill d"*c ivei thai an eng li&hiuau sixty fi . c years i_o could â€¢ â€¢..../ only a1 out a til.lt pari , i t.l food that